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Subject: Re: "Tuning UNIX Lex", Jacobson 1/87
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Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 19:21:26 EST
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Summary: Van is working on finishing up his lex work

In article <8251@clyde.ATT.COM> lda@clyde.ATT.COM (Larry Auton) writes:
> I was at the USENIX conference in Washington last January.  Van Jacobson
> (of Lawrence Berkeley Labs) presented a fantastic paper on Tuning UNIX Lex
> in which he demonstrated incredible performance improvements in the lex
> generated recognizer (lex returned tokens a fast as getc returned
> characters).  Has anybody been able to get the code from him?

The summary says it all.  I don't know when he'll manage to get it out;
He's currently playing with networking.  He has promised to give it to
me for inclusion in the BSD distribution as soon as he's happy with it.
Of course, by "happy" he means "as soon as it's not interesting to play
with anymore and all that's left is the hard work of cleaning it up"
to quote Van ...